[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1026388: Bug#1026388: network-manager: Please use upstream default paths for NM libexec binaries in /usr/libexec

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Neal

Am 19.12.22 um 13:04 schrieb Neal Gompa:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.40.6-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> With the upcoming freeze of Debian Bookworm, I would like to request
> that Debian's NetworkManager builds install their libexec binaries
> in the upstream preferred location in /usr/libexec.
> 
> This aligns with what other distributions do today (notably Fedora
> and openSUSE) and is permitted in Debian since policy standard 4.1.5.0
> (released in 2018) because that is when FHS 3.0 (released in 2015) was
> adopted by Debian.
> 
> I would prefer to see this fixed with Debian Bookworm to minimize the
> continuing pain this deviation causes, especially for upstream projects
> that rely on these binaries to activate parts of NetworkManager functionality.

As the freeze is already pretty close and this potentially affects all 
the following packages, I'd like to postpone this transition to 
bookworm+1 to avoid unnecessary churn this close to the freeze and 
ending up with a half-done transition:

Packages installing VPN service files:
> $ apt-file search /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/
> network-manager-fortisslvpn: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-fortisslvpn-service.name
> network-manager-iodine: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-iodine-service.name
> network-manager-l2tp: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-l2tp-service.name
> network-manager-openconnect: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openconnect-service.name
> network-manager-openvpn: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name
> network-manager-pptp: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-pptp-service.name
> network-manager-ssh: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-ssh-service.name
> network-manager-sstp: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-sstp-service.name
> network-manager-strongswan: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-strongswan-service.name
> network-manager-vpnc: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-vpnc-service.name

At least network-manager-iodine would currently be broken by this 
change, as it doesn't hard-code the full-path to the auth-dialog, see 
[1]. Then there is of course NetworkManager itself, 
network-manager-gnome (nm-connection-editor/nm-applet) which currently 
use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/NetworkManager.

I think, once network-manager-iodine is fixed, NM can start using 
/usr/libexec and packages can migrate to the new path at their own pace.
Once bookworm+1 is open for development, I would file corresponding 
wishlist bugs against the packages above.

Hope that makes sense.

Regards,
Michael

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1026385



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